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The heavens declare the glory of God; and
the firmament sheweth his handywork.

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night
unto night sheweth knowledge.

Ps. 19: 1, 2.

UNIVERSUS.

Azureal heavens of this mundane ephere,
Thou void eternal and of endless epace,
A sacred awe doet thou impart to him
Who on thee gazes, and eublimeiy turns
His mind in revolutions, till, with thouj^ht
Profound, his mental vision seeks the deep
Illimitable depths of nothingness
Bestrewn with systems boundless to the mind
Contracted and still limited to Earth !

Ten thousand times the space that Earth has
been
In darkness and has felt the glow of the
Sublime and glorious orb of day, with fast
Advancing feet would searching light but begin
Her journey to creation's golden shore,
The first majestic work eternal built:
A circle of creation, ambient,
With all the mighty worlds and powers within :
A circus vast, where the chief actors are
Spheres unnumbered and of majesty.

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In n^ajesty they move with wondrous speed
from pole to pole in univereal space •
In rnajestj they glow with sapphire light
Aiul spread above a glorious canopy
VA ith gems, the jewels of wondrous Nature lit
\N inch from the time of her nativity
\\ere placed, her beauteous pereon to axiom
ihroughout the ages of eternity.

O sublime univense! O glorious worlds!
U hat homage do ye pay lo this, the Earth
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To fulhl that hun^ble charge ? To that ordained ^

^e boundless and eternal multitudes

That guard with lasting light the vacancies,

itiat lend such lustre to the infinite,

And people the deep realms of chao^ with

Mysterious fire, are ye obedient to

The mandates of this atom floating on

The universal winds?

... , , , ^Xv ! ppeak not thus

Of worlds that countless as the sands, move in
Majestic .^way to Nature's laws. All were

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Sought out from the deep realms of matter and

formed
In spheres of mundane principles, .-m-h orb
A world, each orb a member of the same
Great family.

Eternal night throughout
The shades prevail fast bound by golden paths
That lead to yon bright atmospheres wherein
Perchance, the breath of mortal dwells, waft on
The pleasant breeze of life, which there may be
An Eden blessed, with full obedience to
The laws of God and His commands. Life there,
On yon bright orb. may be woe, human woe : '
Life there is pleasant, sad, and sorrowful.
Ambition -crowned and upward, onward, with
A quickening pace : life there may be a wealth
Of intellectual power and happiness
Divine ; joy, plucked from untold ages gone ;
Joy drawn at last from evil's darksome reign
By the faith-reaching powers of the soul,"
Which longsincp knew the good and evil things;
Yea, knowing, >in did woi£?h full well The

cause,
And evil when 'twas balanced, kicked the beam.

Etern h,mns of praise ye nightly „ng,
O «o.l<ls above, around about, belo;..
Etenml myriads hushed in silent joy
bnpra^e thee Nature and thy melcL,
Ve they do dance uneonecious that thy eon.

^et^"' !i™7"" ""'' " "Sh'^^^e foot.
Eternal words of wisdom lieth there

immortal passages, divinely writ •

Yet souls there are upon the Earth, who live

Uneonscous of thine elcK,uence displayed

Unconscous of ethereal things abovef

Nor «,ll hey soar above the mean and vile-
Ignoble plots their minds employ to plant '
destruction through the world, Ind 'lll^

tongues,
The viper s keen and cutting instruments

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Thj br,ght-,llumined face and ^aceful form
Society divine and heavenly fair.

Come tune t'hy sou' ^o Nature's harmony,
To songs celestial borne from world to world
And when thine ear is meet for heavenly sounds
The strmg ,s phed. the broken harp's renewed.

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And thou art free— «o spake the ancient seem—
And soaring far above all earthly things.
Communion hold with univereal laws.
Then thou shalt learn in that great school

divine,
What sages fain would know : unfettered, thou
Shalt rise high in the empyreal heaven, till in
The distance, which among the infinity
Of worlds is called eternity, thou come
To perfect stature, "full of grace and truth".

Thus, O man, thine honor is unlimited,
Thy joy supreme. This is thy future being,
The glorious way that leads to Paradise,
Home of the blessed.

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Nature which i« the time-vesture of God, and
reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the
foolish.

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Hath not thy heart within thee burned,
At evening's calm and holy hour?

S. G. BULFINCH

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TIS EVENING.

'Tie eveninj?! The sun is low an<l shines
With gentle ray. The air is warm and sweet.
Methink.s I Kcent tK- alkanet home on
The breeze, yea, a..^i the violet. E'er and
Anon, zephyrs woo the cheek with passion's

wamith
And fan the soul within, til", tuned to thought.
The . pirit wanders free its backward path,
To jrrove or lawn or he<l<,'e in its native place,
Cool, sunlit, scente<l : wliile, from twi;,' ^n H\\ii,
From lawn to shady grove, the birds do f\y,
Ami sit and sing. Bees seek the fragrant

bowers :
From catkins odorous, they bear p. store
Of nectared sweets. The hawk doth soar and

swoop
Upon her prey : and, soaring higher still,
Seeks a retreat. Birds in myria<ls pass o'er
Tli.' {)lain hearing o<lors from the sunny South,
Ami filling all the air with musings of
A distant scene — of sunlit sky and palm.

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11.. .Tass. The landscape, clothed w^th

viTdur.', dec'koil
With crowns of .ocnted shr-....MK..v and groveB
Of aspen, oerthe silver lak, extends
To tree.fringe<l Turtle Monnt. Ann<l this hri^ht
Luxunanee. here an<l there a hamlet stan^ls^
NMnle or, the nei-Mihorin^, rid^vs fee<I the kine
In pastures ;jreen. On yoruhT hilkH-k see
The latnhkins phi.y, where bloomed of late the

proud

Ant rnone : in taKsele<i rMy hves

He still. Here, redolent, of humbler form,

Ihe buckbean creeps in puri)le i,'arb.

Ihe music of those silver sounds that guides
My footsteps on to yonder copse ! Oh sweet
The scene ! Here ^in,^s the lark immortal biivi
Of song, whom myriad muses praise, whom ea^e
Grows rapturous o'er, and peas^vnt learns to

love.
How oft I've listened to thy song at e'en.
And blessed thee at the coming of the dawn.'

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But hark ! Among the willow hedges, hid
In leaf^ nookB, the blackbird tells her tale
Of love with wild gesticulation, while
On aspen boughs the robin, caroling,
Repeats her evening hymn. Perched upon
A tuft f grass, and rocking to and fro
With gentle swing, the bobolink is seen ;
While from his swelling throat sweet' music
falls.

Could I forget thee, bi«l of childhood h
dreams,
And recollection dear? How often have
J. seen thee, and have listened to thy song
In clover-scented meads, when Nature smiled
And Paradise was near ! How often I
Have left the haunts of man to drink with thee
The nectar of the field and feast my soul
Jn thoughts divine and pure ! How often have
I thee befriended, and the ruthless hand
Uplifted o'er thy nest to work thee woe,
Arrested. Yea, and thou art dear to me,
And when thou singest, above the rest I hear
Thy welcome notes.

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I thank thee, minstrels of
Poetic birth. I thank thee, Nature, for
This sylvan scene ! I thank thee, spirit of
The Omnipresent One ! Thy light divine
Doth reach the limits of the univeree !
Into this verdant shade a ray of joy
Straight from the throne of God hath peered.

Mirrored
By light, bestowed on Nature from the world's
Foundation, embers glow; and from the new
Creation nectar eminates — joy
And pleasure, pleasure exquisite.

There is
A language known to them of heaven, whose

tongue
In notes of silver, clear and musical,
Doth praise its God. Freed from this mortal

bane,
They rise and tune their lyres to heavenly

themes,
And heavenly thought's express with ease in

sweet
Simplicity. Not so with man. He feels
But can't express: expressed, an alien stands

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Before. Yet is there joy. To think, to feel,
To hold commune with Nature and with God,
To feast the soul upon a passing breeze,
To drink the perfume of the opening rose,
To list the song of fe'athere<l niinstrels^-.
To catch the colors of the glowing West
And golden-tringe<l clouds — to s-.c, to feel,
To ponder these is joy.

Hast thou not stood
Witliiu a court of green, where beauties formed
By man so pleased thee thou wast happy?
Hast thou not .stoo<l upon a grassy lawn,
Ambient with native hedge of willow or
Of popple, while from swaying branches, decked
With silvery catkins, low sweet music of
All eveninc^ song is 'leard. Which are the

works
More nobk'. which are the divine?

Out from

The ^}-a'SS, lialf ruiiiiinu; ai:<l jialf llyiug, fees
The nesting fowl : and taking higher flight,
Seeks safe retreat in vender waterv slouch.
A wanton search revoals the mother's care ;

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Yet. aniidful of a bond betwixt all flesh

I harn, forbear. Pleased with a look, I epare

11k- .ntriidmg step: for, loving liberty,

Could I deny the boon to creatures made '

In image of that winged goddess? Nay,

This is their heritage and sacred are

Its precincts. Yet. with instrument of death,

Man strules upon the green, no pity in

His breast. He claims the earth and vie^i?

the heavens
With envious c^ . . An Epicurean taste.
Nurses' in the lap of luxury, seeks bent
In Mi. .on feasts. Sport, the lean price paid for
Another's woe, slakes his keen thirst in the
Deep well of pain. From Earth's remotest age
With parasitic greed, they sap the blood
Of life with endless pangs. Beasts are the prey
Of wanton pleasure ; man the ignoble slave
At her voluptuous feasts : yet is the slave
Turned beast, and in his turn is offered to
That god a sacrifice.

Free from the guilt
Of causing needless pain, let me behold
The plain. Her pleasures are as verdant as

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The green, yea, and as fresh : the which to tat^te
Is sport indeed uncumbered. Gross his taste
Who gross material uses, and coarsje his joy :
His thoughts are mean, of low and little worth ;
Enveloped in a cloud his mind, the which
Is cause of darkness and the direful foe
To happiness among all free-born beasts.

With unerring segment yonder slough
Is circled. Of willowed green the crown and

sweet
The aroma of the silvered catkin. E'en from
The leaves a fragrance In (■xhale<l, \\h<m^ balm
Falls gently on the wakened sense. Within
Moves noiselessly across the reedy pool
The graceful waterfowl, unconscious of
Man's presence. Down goes tlio bill to sift

beneath
The murky soil : erect the bo<ly stands,
A featlicrv buov. Ui)starts tb.t" pl"vcr with
A waming cry and seeks a safer distance,
And, moving slowly to the farther shore,
The duck is seen to drift, looking askance.

List to the cooing of the prairie hen,
That on the evening air floats softly by,

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Filling my heart with jo^-- as o'er the plain
I \v;u;<ler nil alone, thinking of dav3
Gone hy, O happy days ! Still in my heart
I feel the vibrant chords quivering with
Ecstasy divine, as recollection paints
Each woll-ren^embered scene. Of beast, or bird,
Or man, love's language warms the heart and

tunes
The soul to its sweet melody. Yet do
Regrets come floating o'er my mind, of tLings
I've ^aid.of things I've done, of things I've left
Undone, of thoughts that withor-^<l in the blaze
Of Love's devouring flame. Pierced, bound,

enslaved,
I could not speak with freedom. Trembling,

shorn
Of my strength, I stood, a creature owned by

fate —
O happy fate that gave me liberty;
0 bliss divine of perfect love begot.

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0 precious evenings! all too swiftly sped!

Longfellow.

The moon ia at her full, and riding high,
Floods the calm fields ivith light.

Bryant.

ORB OF BEAUTY.

Oh how I love to view thy mjBtic mould
At even, or at midnight's silent hour
To visit thy domain iij fancy's form !
'Tis then I get above the things of earth,
And soar triumphant, winged with wondrous

flight
To distant realms. Alas ! my vision fuws
Me, and my soul though shorn of strength to

know
Thee, wonders with a longing wonderment
Thy nature, Orb of Beauty, and thy use.

'Tis fiweet to see thy pallid light and feel
The mystic touch of balmy evening.
Tis sweet to walk with company that leiids
A rapture to the soul 'long paths o'er hung
With flowery trees in odorous breezes wrapt :
'Long .streamlets where the gurgling rill doth

blend
And mingle with the whippo-will's sad not«.

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How calm, serene and beauiful thv lij^ht
Doth veil the earth, and over all divine ^
Compassion throw ? How hk^i the scene ! So

loath
To leave this paradisal state, this taete
Of heaven, this soul-enrapturing space, tc man
The happiest given, we linger yet, the true
Companions of that comely maiden Joy,
Who with her friend and fickle sister Pleoflure,
Roams freely to and fro, transient risitante
From that fair kingdom, Eternal Happiness.

'Tis sweet to live ! With odoriferous breath
The air doth moan and whisper gentle words
Of beauty, love and joy. Silently we gaze
Upon the silvery scene, 'tis beautiful.
We linger yet, though evening hath fled
And left behind the cooling shades of night.
While softened strains of conversation lead
Soul to soul through eyes that voice the joy
And happiness of each. * * * *
***** The night is speeding I
Adieu my Love, once more adieu to Thee.

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0, there is nothing holier, in this life of oura,
than the first consciousneis of love, — the firtt
fluttering of its silken ^Hngs.

Longfellow.

There t< music, even in the beauty of the
stlent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter
than the sound of an instrument.

Sir Tiios. Prowxe.

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AN INTERROGATION,

Has your love grown cold by waiting'/
Has thf holy fi .> <liminislir«l ".'
Is the passion lefv within you?
Shall I bid the friend of lovers,
Little Cupid, brave and warlike,
Draw his bow and speed an arrow,
Speed an arrow from his (juiver?
Shall I hid him strike the lyre-strings,
Vibrant with celestial music
Borne from Heaven downi to Eden
In the evening of creation,
When the Lord created Adam,
And fonned Eve an helpmeet for him,
Made to love and to adore him.
To adore him and to love him,
Made to cherish and sustain him,
Made to bring him sweetest comfort,
Made to strew his path with roses,
Made to deck his couch with linen,
Pure and white and sweet and holy?

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Born but to banquet and to drain the bowl.

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THE ANOENT FEAST.

Before me dismal shades of darkness creep,
Imprisoned by great mansion halls of flint,
Which tell a lord hath reigned, and grandeur,

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A charm, hath met a woeful death ; for, mark
Yon marble board, that fallen in decay,
Shows workmanship divine, a spirit breathed
In stone. Seats for a hundred creatures round
It stand in mockery of fche past, when many
A gallant to the festive feast did lead
His lady blushing amid the merry throng
Of eager worshippere ; when glances flew
From eye to eye, heralds of thought from heart
To heart, of love ; when lord and lady ol
Those ancient days did magnify the gods
Of Epicurean birth and bend their heads
To Bacchus; while, around the mirthful board,
The ivy clings in garlands beautiful,

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And clasps witbin te folds the verdured

Thyrsus.
Then, from out the hidden chambere of
The Boul, lead by the luring call of Jove's
Beguihng son, elfine hosts appear.

Firet, Lightheart came and claimed the royal

seat,

While round him sat his coundllore of state
In happy mood.

Wit, that vain slave to self
Resolved, doth occupy the favor at
The right; while smiling Humor sits upon
The left; and witih them, ^ i- welcome to
The feast, sits Laughter pi. ■ with Pleasure's

grace
And Company's gay form.

Then noisy Mirth
Appeam with bolder front, as forth he leads
His minions to the feast. Gay Revelry
Is there and Beauty's form so lovely,
With Pride and Power and vile Jealousy,
Wealth unknown and thoughtless Jabbering,
Languor and Rest and Sleep.

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Our feasts
In every mess have folly, and the feeders
Digest witJi it a custom, I sJmuJd hhish
To .see you so attired.

Shakespeare.

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So immeasurably older than any others
{mountains) now standing on the surface of the
globe, the Laurentians alone have the real
right to bear the title of "The Everlasting
Hilh/'

Lt.-Col. Wm. Wood.

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ISLE OF LAURENTIA.

Isle of Laurentia! through the niiete of time
Thee I behold, thou 6elf-illumine<l land!
The rays are bright and pierce thp darkness

through
With glcaniinj,' ]i-},t ! Th<;u uast the fin^t to

rise
Above the Earth-encompast^ed Hood ; and thou
Art Ktill. though ancient! Thou show.-st the

toil of time :
The ma.ks of many ages rest upon
Thee! Thou'rt a wilderneBs. a "Tireat Lone

Land,"
Where rocks eternal lift their shining crowns
Above the gloom of thy dim solitude!
A land of deFolation, wild and drear,
Where silence reigns supreme, inspiring awe.
No minstrel song to herald forth the day,
No low sweet murmur from a mid-»f]ay bower,
No evening carol issuing from the grove

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In sweetest meJody. Not e'en is heard
Tlic' scorpion's hies of hatt-, nor from his dark
Abode the midnight owl's complaint All, al!
Ls lonr aiul silent, and in that stiihu-ss dread.

Aeons fiavt t-ome and uone,

Vfii, tirnt' lias

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To manhood, since, in youth, thee I beheld,
Laurentia! Above the boundless flood
Thou rose slowly, majestically! Along
The beaoh the rushing waters swept : far o'er
The land the tidal waters crept. All was
A waste. No tree, no shrub, no grass was seen
No song of birds was heard, no voice of man '
Or beast. Above the surging deep, lifting
Athwart the sky his fiery columns bright.
Surmounted hig'h with clouds of ebony,
Sat Vulcan. Far o'er the land, across
The troubled sea. .stilling the ocean in
Its roughest mood, his awful voice resounded:
With blows of thundering might he smote the

Earth
Till her foundations f4hcok. The mountains

reeled

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And fell, the river lost its couree, the sea
Its bed. uplift e<l o't-r the wavu. Winds howled
Storms raged with fury, awful darknes*? reigned,
While torrents washed the earth in welterinc^

floods.
Along the gloomy sky rolled thunder, peal
On peal, as lightning flashed and lit the scene
Around of warring element*?.

Then lived
Th€ Eozoon. In caverne deep beneath
The surging wave he dwelt in peace. No foe,
No monster fierce, of see leviathans
Disturbed his play : he reigned, lord of things
Created. From the liqui<l flo<Kl he drew
Life's sustenance; on weaker creatures fed.
Brief his alloto<l davs ; dateless the age
Of his enduring reign. Tomb upon tomb
Iu'C't'ive<l tlu' <k'a<l oi countless nivria^ds,
Till the sepulchral city spread afar
Its adamantine walls.

Upon the hills
The Eophyton grew. Along the stream
Green banks were formed of izrass luxuriant.

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Heeds flourished in abundance. Rushes lined

The Bhoree of overflowing rivere. On

The el. 5g,eh tide the seaweed floats, wrapping

The waters in a mantle green. Clinging

To rocks and motionless, save when the surge

Doth sJhake his quivering form, that vibrates to

Each weltering wave, the sponge is seen.

Paddling
His bulk along now sports the Trilobite,
The giant of the seas. Fishes appear. '
From cove to cove they glide. With scale

upturaed,
All glittering to the sun, thej sport beneath
The wave, the blue and rippling wave.

Now green
The verdured land and rank the growth of fern
And moss and calamite. Aloft they grow
All interlaced, forming a network to
Exclude the sun. Warm is th ray that on
The forest shines aii<l soft the air. Lovely
The groves. The vernal branches answer to
The breeze in mystic murmurs. Soft the sound
Liko voice of many spirits, seeking a land

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To dwell. Strange whieperinge, strange music

and
Delight. The enchanted bouI in dreamland

rests,
A land mjBteriouB, v here spirits dwell.

Ten thoufiand insects sport among the leaves ;
From branch to branch ten thousand insects fly.
In damps below the reptile lurks scekirif,'
The cooling shades.

Leviathans appear:
In marine majesty they ride upon
The white-capped waves. Above the deep blue

sea
The plesiosauri gaze, snapping betimes,
As o'er the tide the pterodactyles fly.
Along the shore the ichthyosaurus crawls
And in the shallows. Perched upon a tree
The archeeopteryx sits, resting perchance
From arduous flight. The hesperonis
Feeds below. Upon the breeze, dismal and sad,
Is borne an evening melody : 'tis of
The ichthyomis to his mate. Fainter
The sound, more faint, it pinks and dies away.

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List to the mu3ic of yon mocking bin!
bwin-ii.s. a!oft upon fche pendant branch '
Of 3^n<l.r i\oM-cry tree. How sweet the sodlM
VV .th near approach the silver stream reflects
I'he eelf-same scene, 'tis beautiful. Gentlv

glides
The river to the sea. ite tide un'turbed
But by a breeze from odoriferous bowere
Each nppimg wave the lily gently rocks
A sun-roflecting mirror, throwing its ravs
With glittering light across the placid stream
W hose banks of verdure kiss the flowing tide '
With nectared lips; then waving in fche 'air
Sweet zephyrs take their fli^^ht on ocl<^oua

wings,
From buds, from opening flowers, by fairy hands
Unlocked. In bird-enli^-ened bowers, joyous
And free, sweet minstrels tune the lyre.

brea. .g
An Orphean strain upon the air, fragrant
With clove, Amboyna's spicy fruit^ Pulo
Aij, thou wast not, when on Laurentian shores
The nutmeg grow, nor wast thou Lonthoir, for,
Upon the northern main she sat, a gem,
Ere yet our seas were formed, our continent©,
Our isles.

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Being azoic these LaurentianH are older
than the first age when our remotest ancestors
appeared in the earliest of animal forms,
milUoni^ and million of years ago. Tliey are,
in fact, the only part of the visible Earth which
was prcscn ,vhen Life itself iras horn.

Lt.-Col. \Vm. Wood.

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I called for a drougJit upon the land.

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THE DROUTH.

Clear is the sky. From his fitiry throne
The sun illumee with withering heat the earth.
No zephyrs sweet with perfume- laden breath ;
No freshening shower; no lift,- Imt listk-ssucss ;
Yea, even death. Dead is the grasB and this
Tile tinu- ot vernal rain« : heiph'SK lianys
The quivering aspen leaf; the willow in
Her sadness hows her head. In shady nooks
Screened from the angry gun, in softened tones
Of fearfulnesB, the feathered minstrels dwell.
Then all is silent and a dread pervades
The stillness, sad, lonely and mysterious.

With anxious eye the farmer scans the sky
To get new hope. The West is gloomy with
A darksome cloud that rises fast. Brighter
His face. The breeze is cheering, and the sun
Obscured, invigorates as a deep draught

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Drunk from ite cooling depths. Onward, up-
ward,
RoIIb the sombre eiiape. The farmer smiles.
Fiercely blows the wind made visible
With clouds of dust. And now 'tis overhead ;
It breaks and pasees by, rainless again.

Thus oft elated and as oft depressed.
He lives on hope, the tillor of the soilj
And views the cloudless liky to get new hope
Again.

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Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

Prov. 13 : 12.

There is no life to raise a hum, no wind to
murmur, no ocean to boom and foam, and no
brook to plash. Dead silence reigns on the
moon; a thousand cannons might be fired and
a thousand drums beaten upon that airless
world, but no sound could come from them :
lips might quiver and tongue essay to speak,
hut no action of theirs could break the utter
silence of the lunar scene.

Nasmyth & Carpenter.

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FROM TYCHO'S 3UNLIT
HEIGHT.

Behoki I stand on Tyoho's sunlit height.
A lonely spectre in a world of death.
For all is silent, and the vacancies
About are painted with the dismal shades
Of Hell. All is silent, silent. Woeful clime,
Where charms of solitude are lost, w.ure strife
Is bliss, though never to be blessed. Fain would
The fiends of Hades turn and seek, in woe.
Their lethal caves of fire; fain would mortal

Bileep
In everlasting rest, than dwell in such
Domain of awful halcyon gloom. But now
Inured to sights of dim obscurity,
I cast my wandering sight above, where space
Is black as night and chaos rules supreme
In sempitumal depth; there to behold,
Midst countless wandering orbs, the mother of
This sphere in splendor wrapt, in glory crowned,

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Kefulgent with a majesty sublime,
And with a wondering bouI to trace the realms
Of land and sea. To reckon Aeia'B Epan
That girds the Earth with unreBi^^ing grasp.
While Arctic's ice-bound sea doth cool her

brow,
And India's warming flood doth kve her feet-
To behold Europa'o smiling form as at
Her feet doth kneel, in deep subjection held.
Africa; to cast a wandering glance upon
Atlantic's darksome flood and view the ^ ores
Of great America ; to summon up
The legions of the calm Pacific,
Wherein doth rest the Orient's Mighty Isle;
Or with keener vision weigh the Alpine heights,
And gaze upon the Himalayan peaks,
Forever robed in white, while shadows veil
The glades and cast in gloom the torrid wastes
Of India's sultry clime.

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Ceasing to gaze
Above, I cast my eager glances round
About. Behold ! as far as eye is wont
To see, an ocean deep, and limitlesi?,
And dark, an ocean formed of mountain tops,

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Whose lighted peaks do seem as foam-capped

waves,
While, here and there, a circle seems to stray
As though some wayward star had lost itn

course,
And in despair had fallen and barrt.-d its, grave
With silver bands of time-inmiortal .str('nuth.

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Jiut thou, O King of Cratt^Ts, deep and dark.
How awful is thy magnitude I Here rolled
A sea of fire, and vapoury essences,
Mixed with the smells of Tophet, played about
These banks. Here rose this caldron's livid

tiood
At times when Vulcan, urged with sweetened

toil,
And fanned by fame's inciting call, strove,
With instrunients forged in Erebus,
To light with fiercer heat his native home
And pile more fuel upon the torri<l spot,
Till overflowing all the heights about,
At intervals, where serrate gaps emit
The pressing fiery flood, and plunging down
The rugged mountain side, unaltered in
Its course by height of shelving ledge or denth

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Of lowly cave, it lay congealed adown
The steep incline. * * ♦ ♦

* Here sterner breezes swept
The mountain top, and roared with vengeful

glee
At Winter's coming rule : here «nowy banks
And glacial beds were formed, and issuing from
Them rah the virgin spring ; and over all
Was lig*ht, brilliant and beautiful. But now
Alas! they all have paesed away, away.
And darkness lowering sings with silent tones
A requiem for the dead.

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// moisture existed upon the moon, its
night-side would be hound in a grip of host to
which our Arctic regions would he compara-
tively tropical.

Nasmyth & Carpenter.

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Death aims nith fouler spite
At fairer marks.

QUARLES.

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THE DEATH OF THE GOPHERS

O'er yonder green with edow and heavy etep
Treads farmer George. Wifeh pail in hand, and

eyes
Aground, he moves now here, now there,

stooping
The while to place the venomed wheat aeide
Each hole.

From vonder hillock comes the sound
Of life, the gophers' chirp. Standing erect,
They view the farmer's form with ^^aucy mien
And bold. \.ith nearer approach they chirp

into
Their dens, then re-<appear to disappear
Again with fainter voice, that echoeB through
The corridors beneath.

See hith'- and thith'r
Flee the mischievous. Defic:i't no"^

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They Btand. The fanner marks each spot and

leaves
A sumptuouB repast, then paeeee on,
Dealing destruction with a willing h^d.

With charity exhausted, he retume
To view hi8 work. Lo f all is still ! Silence.
The song of death and the sad music of
Annihilation. Here and there they lie
Sorne at their burrow s mouth ; ofhem in search
Of dnnk have fallen and died midway between
Their outi and their near neighbor's home.

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Though in midst of Ufe we he,
Snares of death surround us.

Martin Luther.

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